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View synonyms for coffin nail

coffin nail

noun

, Slang.
  1. a cigarette.


coffin nail

noun

  1. a slang term for cigarette
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coffin nail1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

The second day I was there I lighted a coffin-nail before one of the older officers.

Why, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.

One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail.

I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.

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